Oral Session #22: Multiple Disturbance Effects, Including Fire.

Presiding: K.M. Menning, University of California, Berkeley.
Monday, August 7, 2000
8:00 AM to 12:15 PM
Maybird Room - Cliff Lodge

8:00 AM	Disturbance "legacy" in forest communities. BEATTY, S.W.
8:15 AM	Disturbance and succession in interior Alaskan white spruce forests . ADAMS, P.C. and L.A. VIERECK
8:30 AM	The role of fire disturbance, climate, and atmospheric CO2 in the response of historical carbon dynamics in Alaska from 1950 to 1995. MCGUIRE, A.D. and R.A. MEIER, Q. ZHUANG, M. MACANDER, T.S. RUPP, E. KASISCHKE, D. VERBYLA, D.W. KICKLIGHTER, J.M. MELILLO
8:45 AM	Hydrologic regimes, disturbance history, and environmental gradients at four forested long-term ecological research sites : Andrews, Coweeta, Hubbard Brook, and Luquillo. JONES, J.A. and D.A. POST
9:00 AM	Distinguishing the effects of environmental stress and forest succession on changes in the forest floor. YANAI, R.D. and M.A. ARTHUR
9:15 AM	Disturbance in mixed-conifer forests of Yosemite Valley, California. RIZZO, D.M. and G.W. SLAUGHTER
9:30 AM	The relative roles of lightning and aboriginal ignitions in pre-1900 fire regimes, southwestern USA. ALLEN, C.D.
9:45 AM	Indians and fire in the U.S. Rocky Mountains. BAKER, W.L.
10:00 AM	Break
10:15 AM	The interaction of fire intensity and elk herbivory on aspen regeneration and arthropod biodiversity: An intermediate burn hypothesis. BAILEY, J.K. and T.G. WHITHAM
10:30 AM	Tree seedling survival and growth in southern Appalachian forests: Effects of canopy gaps, understory removal, trenching and fertilization. BECKAGE, B. and J. CLARK
10:45 AM	The role of fire, deer herbivory and canopy gaps on tree species composition in eastern deciduous forests: Implications for succession theory. COLLINS, R.J. and W.P. CARSON
11:00 AM	Semi-arid plant community response to drought and land use at the regional scale. ELMORE, A.J. and J.F. MUSTARD, S.J. MANNING
11:15 AM	Restoring fire as an ecological process in shortgrass prairie ecosystems. BROCKWAY, D.G.
11:30 AM	How does a sagebrush steppe landscape's composition and pattern respond to grazing, fire, and climate change? WASHINGTON-ALLEN, R.A. and N.E. WEST, R.D. RAMSEY, C.T. HUNSAKER
11:45 AM	Seed bank responses to experimental fires in a Mojave Desert scrub community. ESQUE, T.C. and J.A. YOUNG, C.R. TRACY
12:00 PM	Effects of fire, grazing, and the presence of shrubs on desert grassland species of southern New Mexico. DREWA, P.B. and K.M. HAVSTAD